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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting determine the number of spaces Post 302497925 by Corona688 on Friday 18th of February 2011 11:36:39 AM
Old 02-18-2011
Hum... I suppose you can generate strings like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# ksh will also work

TABS=3
STR="longer-than-8"
((TABS -= (${#STR}/8) ))
[ "${TABS}" -lt 1 ] && TABS=1

while [ "$TABS" -gt 0 ]
do
        TAB="${TAB}"$'\t'
done

echo "${STR}${TAB}"

---------- Post updated at 10:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:35 AM ----------

Or, what they probably meant with printf is to use spaces instead of tabs:


Code:
# Will uniformly space these 20 apart
printf "%20s" a b qweyoiuyuioyuiy hargle fleeb
echo

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